SAVVY SHELDON'S FEELING GOOD AS HELL
MIRA Books, release date: March 22, 2022
Film adaptation release date: November 30, 2025
A sexy romance about a plus-size sweetheart who gets a full-life makeover after a brutal breakup and falls for the incredibly hot contractor renovating her home.
Savvy Sheldon spends a lot of time tiptoeing around the cracks in her life: her high-stress and low-thanks job, her clueless boyfriend and the falling-apart kitchen she inherited from her beloved grandma--who taught her how to cook and how to love people by feeding them. But when Savvy's world starts to crash down around her, she knows it's time for some renovations.
Starting from the outside in, Savvy tackles her crumbling kitchen, her relationship with her body, her work-life balance (or lack thereof) and, last but not least, her love life. The only thing that doesn't seem to require effort is her ride-or-die squad of friends. But as any home-reno-show junkie can tell you, something always falls apart during renovations. First, Savvy passes out during hot yoga. Then it turns out that the contractor she hires is the same sexy stranger she unintentionally offended by judging based on appearances. Worst of all, Savvy can't seem to go anywhere without tripping over her ex and his latest "upgrade." Savvy begins to realize that maybe she should've started her renovations the other way around: beginning with how she sees herself before building a love that lasts.
"A heartfelt, hopeful, and humorous exploration of the importance of learning to love yourself...a joy to read." -Booklist, STARRED review
ZORA BOOKS HER HAPPY EVER AFTER
MIRA Books, release date: April 25, 2023
A heart-pounding, curvy romance about an Indie bookstore owner who finds herself in a love triangle when she meets the author she's had a crush on for years...and his best friend.
​
Zora has committed every inch of her life to establishing her thriving DC bookstore, making it into a pillar of the community, and she just hasn’t had time for romance. But when a mystery author she’s been crushing on for years agrees to have an event at her store, she starts to rethink her priorities. Lawrence is every bit as charming as she imagined, even if his understanding of his own books seems just a bit shallow. When he asks her out after his reading, she’s almost elated enough to forget about the grumpy guy who sat next to her making snide comments all evening. Apparently the grouch is Lawrence’s best friend, Reid, but she can’t imagine what kind of friendship that must be. They couldn’t be more different.
​
But as she starts seeing Lawrence, and spending more and more time with Reid, Zora finds first impressions can be deceiving. Reid is smart and thoughtful—he’s also interested. After years of avoiding dating, she suddenly has two handsome men competing for her affection. But even as she struggles to choose between them, she can’t shake the feeling that they’re both hiding something. A mystery she’s determined to solve before she can find her HEA.
EVEN IF THE SKY IS FALLING
HQN Books, release date: May 30, 2023
Pitched as 90’s disaster movie romance meets BLACKOUT, Taj McCoy ed’s EVEN IF THE SKY IS FALLING, a steamy rom-com anthology about five pairs of individuals sheltered in close quarters as aerial debris plummets toward Earth and the NASA team who raised the alarm by accident, featuring stories by Farah Heron, S.T. Cori, Charish Reid, Sarah Smith, and Denise Williams, to Errin Toma at HQN, for publication in Spring 2023, by Veronica Park at Fuse Literary (world English).
Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at Andrea Brown Literary Agency now represents McCoy.
THE GOOD ONES ARE TAKEN
MIRA Books, release date: April 23, 2024
When Maggie's best friend admits he's in love with her, she'll have to decide whether it's worth giving up something good for something that could be amazing in this laugh-out-loud friends-to-lovers rom-com.
After a bad breakup, Maggie wants to find her Prince Charming, but all she’s finding are frogs. When her best friends, Savvy and Joan, apply pressure and demand she find a date worthy of attending their respective weddings, she agrees to take her own advice and try online dating. Since she's the maid of honor for both weddings, her bridal party duties are massive, but both brides insist that Maggie prioritize finding a date. After an onslaught of maybes, noes and hell noes, she’s close to giving up, when she meets a handsome doctor at the gym who just might be the one.
Meanwhile, her college bestie, Garrett, throws salt in everyone’s game. At every turn, he points out the red flags and tells Maggie to keep looking. Things come to a head when Maggie demands that Garrett be happy for her, and he finally admits that he can’t. Not when he’s not with her. When he blurts out his feelings, Maggie’s world is turned upside down. Now she must choose between the perfect guy and a friendship that is the foundation for everything she’s ever wanted.
.jpg)
THROW AWAY THE KEY
Independently published, release date: February 20, 2025
Emma Sparrow is in a period of transition. She is dropping the men from her dating roster, much to the surprise of her friends who are hopeful that the change means she is ready for something more serious. For years, she has said that she won’t date a woman again until she is ready to fall in love. Is she now? Maybe.
But Emma doesn’t have time to focus on the DC dating pool, because she is moving into her own place for the very first time, having gone from living with her parents to becoming her best friend’s roommate since their college dorm years. Now that best friend Zora is getting serious and moving in with her boyfriend, Emma feels ready to try something new and create her own space. When she finds the perfect building, the place seems just right for Emma, but she’ll have to deal with the no nonsense landlady.
Sadeqa “Sadie” Evans seems to have it out for Emma, but it’s not like Emma means to lock herself out of her apartment or break her key. Even underneath all of Sadie’s grouchy exterior, Zora and her granny sense sizzling chemistry, and when they implore Emma to take a closer look, she begins to notice the sexy woman behind the smoldering glares and snarky remarks.
When they find themselves in close quarters, Emma opens herself to the possibilities, but after, Sadie is just as closed off as before. When the pair are drawn together like magnets once more–unlocking sparks and a fiery connection–Sadie bolts mid-date, leaving Emma questioning whether she’s romantacized everything that happened. Was Emma ready too soon? Will Sadie ever be open to more?
THROW AWAY THE KEY is a queer landlord tenant, grumpy sunshine romance set in Northeast DC.
THE DATING PROHIBITION
MIRA Books, release date: September 2, 2025
In this spicy new rom-com, an ambitious entrepreneur working to get her speakeasy supper club off the ground is pushed off balance when her childhood crush turns up, hotter than ever––then tells her she's off-limits.
Now that Kendra’s returned home, she can’t help feeling like a kid again—back in her big brother’s shadow, trying to get her restaurant off the ground while his new venture is flying high right out the gate. It doesn’t help that everyone refuses to stop calling her Keke, the childhood nickname she loathes.
The only bright spot is her longtime crush BJ. He’s been her big brother’s best friend for most of her life, and he’s always been that cool, chill guy who was easy to talk to and made her laugh. Now he’s looking at her like she’s all grown up, and there’s nothing childish about the chemistry brewing between them. Even better, he takes her dreams seriously, and he’s ready to help her make her supper club a reality.
But then BJ extinguishes the sparks flying between them, insisting nothing romantic can ever happen because she’s “off limits.” As her investors fall through and her best chance at fulfilling her professional dreams points toward leaving home again for a fresh start, will BJ be ready for love before Kendra moves on? Or will he sweep her off her feet when she least expects it?